Every lab training a coding model needs engineers who can look at generated code and say, precisely, why it is wrong. Not run it, read it. That is a senior skill, and it is where the money is: the specimen listing in the book is an expert senior role posted at $150 to $210 an hour for ten years or more of experience.

The work is review, not delivery: rate two solutions against each other, score a full agent trajectory, write the reference implementation, break an agent’s reasoning, author eval problems that are actually hard. Async, remote, and priced by the hour. No take-home, no standup.

If you are a senior, staff or principal engineer, or you have the open-source record to prove the level, this guide is how you get in. It also has a chapter for engineers doing this between roles, on the traps it sets.

What you get:
The ebook, The Coder’s Second Career: the role types, the screening tasks, how the rubrics work, the confidentiality and open-source licensing risks specific to engineers, and how to rate yourself into the top band.
The Engineer Winners chat: other senior engineers comparing contracts and screening notes.

Optional add-on: The Coder’s Second Career: Weekly Listings, a fresh compile of open senior engineering evaluation roles every week.

Digital only. You pay, you get the PDF and the chat invite. Nothing ships. Posted rates are real; passing the screen is on you.